CountryMouse's Refuge

Okay, my LiveJournal is locked to Friends-Only, and I put a final message there. I'm just going to leave it as-is.

This is my home now. :-) Wellll, this and my website. :-)

Bush is rattling his sabre again. ::sigh:: He calls Iran a "threat to world peace". He's gonna get us all killed yet. :-(

I've been working on fixing links (on my website, in a couple other blogs)--this might take days and days to complete. There are a lot of links that will no longer work for the general public, as they go to now-locked entries in my LiveJournal. As I can, I'm changing things to go to those same entries archived here on InsaneJournal.

Wow, I've spent a lot of time on the phone today so far: my sis phoned, then Cat'r (a couple times). My sis and I usually spend at least 1/2 hour or more on the phone each time we talk. Fortunately we both have free-long-distance plans. :-)

The cordless phone I ordered over the weekend from amazon.com arrived today. It's charging now--it has to charge for 16 hours, minimum! We have a corded phone also, so we're not stuck with no phone service. :-) The new phone is a VTech. I hope we like it okay. I didn't want to get anything expensive right now--we may be getting one with multiple handsets later this year.

Okay, I need to go cook. Then eat. Then do laundry. Enough shilly-shallying online. :-P

I guess the sound of a bus just outside the window on our busy street jogged a memory.

I remember being in downtown Cincinnati. I was probably around 5 years old. I (we? was my older brother along? I don't know) was with Grandma (? some adult--probably Grandma). We went to Rollman's Department Store. All that I remember about that was the single-person-width wooden escalator. It was jerky and was kinda scary to me. There was some other department store that I liked better because it had a smooth escalator, but I don't remember which.

The only other memory I have of that same trip was lots of buses, all big and smelling of diesel fuel. I think we were on Fountain Square, but close to Rollman's (later became Mabley & Carew). The Tyler Davidson Fountain was at that time down nearer the Walnut Street side of Fountain Square, facing east.

It's almost like a dream, remembering only a couple images like that. Oh, and it was mid-to-late afternoon. I remember the angle of the sun and the buses.

For the longest time I wished I could ride one of those silent beautiful trolley cars. But we always seemed to use the lines that had the loud motorized buses. Eventually I did get to ride one once, when I was a teenager. And I was disenchanted. :-D It was jerky and unpleasant. I thought it would glide along peacefully, but not so. That was the first and last time I rode a trolley. :-)

Thinking back, the smoothest ride I can ever remember was on the Shooting Star rollercoaster at Coney Island. There was only one little *jog*, very momentary. Other than that, smoooooth! It was perfect!

I wonder what the new electric cars are like. I wonder if they too have a jerkiness to them, when they go slow. I would love to find out!